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Be Green Packaging Acquired By The Riverside Company

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Santa Barbara-based Be Green Packaging , a designer of sustainable, compostable, and recyclable packaging for the consumer packaged goods market, has been acquired by private equity investor Riverside Company. Be Green Packaging was founded in 2007, and was co-founded by Ron Blitzer and Robert Richman. READ MORE>>.

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This Week in VC: Michael Montgomery (President, Montgomery & Co.)

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Michael is a very accomplished corporate executive in his own right having run Sega Gameworks and helped IPO EuroDisney as well as having been on the founding team of DreamWorks SKG (where he helped them raise their first $900 million in equity). Give up a box of clothes and receive one in the size you designate. We discussed: 1.

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Interview: Seth Epstein of SocialStay

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Value Prop Twitter Style : SocialStay is: "An easy to set up & manage mobile platform designed for the hospitality industry. Great design/ user experience carries more and more weight these days and I have been lucky to touch some of the world’s most visible brands. Copyright © 2007-11 by J. Write it down….

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

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I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. I believe a bubble occurs when a market is willing to pay greater than intrinsic value for an asset class. That asset class need not represent the broader market.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register?

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Smart move on Googles part and congratulations to the geniuses at the private equity firms (Hellman & Friedman and JMI Equity) that identified this hole in the market and bought DoubleClick for a fraction of what they sold it for. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit Where's Jack Bauer?

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Stay Positive

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It could take only one moment of negativity to ruin months or years of positive equity. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit . ► March (1) Office 2.0: Where's Jack Bauer? ► February (1) What do you do when a reporter you admire misrepre. All that powered by positivity.

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Roping in the Legal Eagles

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Some startup attorneys will accept a portion of their initial fees in the form of equity. When you hit the inevitable bumps in the road, a lawyer who has an equity stake in your business is more likely to be flexible with respect to payment terms and more willing to give you quick, off-the-clock feedback and guidance.